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Name
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The 1765 Manx Prayer Book
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Description
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The Prayer Book printed in Manx in 1765, the same year as the Revestment Act. Both a monument and a marker: it preserved the language in print and marked the moment after which no institution on the Island would fight for the language the way Wilson had fought for it. The coincidence of date makes it a symbol of everything the Revestment interrupted. The literary infrastructure that Wilson and Hildesley created before and during the Revestment would eventually provide the foundation for the language revival two centuries later.
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Active Period
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1765
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Type
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Publication
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Language
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Source
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Multiple sources
